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When her pail is full she helps me fill my pail, and we both eat handfuls of blueberries, staining our shirts and skirts and skin.
He dropped to his knees and gathered up handfuls of dust and smeared them on his forehead and chest, crying aloud in anguish.
I fumbled the pitcher before managing to fill the bowl, then splashed handfuls onto my face.
Two robbers claiming to be armed with knives robbed a jewellery store stealing handfuls of expensive chains and rings.
Take out a couple of the bottles, and fill the empty spots with bouquets of flowers and handfuls of candy.
The lazy and eerie rustle of wind through trees was all we could hear as we gathered handfuls of rotting needles.
I dragged the trough before them and filled it with the last few handfuls of barley.
Expectant youngsters caught handfuls of kitchels at the Harwich's historic mayor-making ceremony.
All six of us grabbed handfuls from the box and ducking and diving behind tables, we started full-scale cream cracker warfare.
It was a thin meal, a watery gruel tossed into a large pot which each slave was allowed to take five handfuls from.
On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens.
As she walked into the kitchen he was just in the process of heaping handfuls of the kernels into the corn popper that was already heated up.
It consisted of about two handfuls of greens grown in the garden, together with 3 small peppers from my pepper plant, a carrot and an onion.
Finn stooped down next to the bright, crystal clear water and started scooping handfuls of water into his mouth.
Do you think that it's healthy for our Democracy that because of gerrymandering, only handfuls of House races are now actually competitive races?
When biting the kerb in a Paris street, there is no recompense, no handfuls of clay with which to sign the mould for your own passing bell.
Throwing snowballs, or just handfuls of snow, they made snowmen and were hilarious about kissing them and dancing with them.
Whirled with handfuls of spinach, arugula, and cilantro, the hummus is a much more snackable way of getting your greens.
She passed the bag around and we dug our hands in, pulling out handfuls of bite-sized chocolate chip cookies.
Alternatively, use slices of stale baguette and layer with handfuls of mixed dried fruit or leftover mincemeat.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When she heard the first handfuls of sand fall on the haik, she gave a sharp cry.
And now behold what a miracle of reanimation may be wrought by a few handfuls of bread grain!
Denham looked after them, and made as if he were tearing handfuls of grass up by the roots from the carpet.
William decided to bring her syringa, handfuls of syringa, armfuls of syringa.
Mummy Mountain in the north and Longs Peak in the south continually gather handfuls of fleecy cloud.
Put four pounds of pure honey into a still, with twelve handfuls of the tendrils of vines, and the same quantity of rosemary tops.
Scooping up double handfuls of the unseasoned stuff, we fell to even before Kazu had gotten his ponderous spoon into position.
They ravenously pick handfuls and armfuls as if they could never have enough.
Did two handfuls of ashes literally become the blains upon the bodies of all the Egyptians?
Then I took down the salt-box that was on the chimney-shelf and mixed handfuls of salt in the porridge left in the pot.
Tom silently as he came near to her, transferred several handfuls of cotton from his own sack to hers.
Manicamp began to scoop up his gold by handfuls, and pour it in cascades upon his bed.
They threw hard-earned handfuls of road-grit upon the flames, which accepted them with enthusiasm.
Here and there were men to offer biscuits and handfuls of prunes.
Madame Sorel clutched him by the hair and tore out some handfuls.
Eight or so years ago, handfuls of camps with vision began to invest in ropes courses and climbing walls.
All day he toiled on untiringly, and by the evening he had succeeded in extracting ten handfuls of plaster and fragments of stone.
I interrupted, dragging the pillow away, and turning the holes towards the mattress, for she was removing its contents by handfuls.
So soon as the cab had passed, he flung himself, with both hands open, upon the heap of coins, and began thrusting handfuls in his pocket.
And he measured ten double handfuls of pearls, diamonds, and other gems, many of which, mounted by the most famous workmen, were valuable beyond their intrinsic worth.
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